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This chapter reviews the design and data collection procedures of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS). It builds on the first book on the PYS, which focused on the first two waves of the study (Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber, & van Kammen 1998a), and on the second book of the PYS (Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber, & White, 2008), which covers all available data waves for the youngest and oldest cohorts between ages 7 and 25.
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The youngest cohort was later followed up in the mid-20s, and that cohort and the oldest cohort are currently (2010–2011) being followed up at about ages 30 and 36, respectively.
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Loeber, R., Farrington, D.P., Stallings, R. (2011). The Pittsburgh Youth Study. In: Young Homicide Offenders and Victims. Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9949-8_2
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